Zhang Siyuan slapped his sore legs, buried his face in the thick fur collar, and only showed a pair of twinkling eyes. I kept rubbing my stiff, cold fingers, and my eyes scanned back and forth among the trees like an eagle, lest I miss the slightest difference. I don't know how long I walked, until my eyes were sore and glazed, but I still didn't notice anything, only the bare and shiny trunk wrapped in a gentle glow of moonlight.

Zhang Siyuan muttered and complained: "I didn't see anything when I walked with broken legs, it seems that this path was chosen wrong." Let's quickly turn around and change direction, and if you continue to walk, you may encounter some demons and monsters. ”

I shook my head and said with some trepidation, "No, I didn't choose the wrong path." If you follow the trend in the past, it won't take long to return to the river. But we've been walking for so long now, and we're still in the woods, and the trees around us are getting taller and taller. ”

Half puzzled and half excited, he tilted his head and looked around at the towering trees, and said in amazement: "I was afraid that something would come out of the trees, so I kept squinting at the dark bushes and ignored this." Xiao Xuanxuan, your performance today is good, you deserve praise, let Emperor Ben Tai crown you. ”

I ignored his jokes, and with great difficulty picking up the branches in front of me, I stepped over the trunk of the tree hiding in the snow and exposed a corner, and my heart involuntarily pinched. But I remember never being in such a dense place with trees. There was a thick, fluffy white snow like a carpet under his feet, and there were no footprints of anyone or animals on it, and there was no sound in his ears except the sound of his own breathing. The branches are entangled and densely packed like a net, almost completely blocking my vision, I am getting more and more panicked, the flow of blood and heartbeat are beginning to be uncontrollable, my legs are trembling and I want to go back, is it possible that we have just come out of the tiger's den, but into the wolf's den?

He swung his knife to cut off the branches and leaves that were entangled in front of his face, and leaned forward by the clear moonlight, his eyes widened slightly, and he pulled me over and said in surprise: "Look at that tree, it is too tall and thick, it can be called the king of trees." ”

The two of us supported each other and stepped over the trunk of the tree that had been crushed to the ground by the snow and was as tall as a calf, and we craned our necks as hard as we could, looking at this huge tree, which was as tall as a cloud, with a waist as thick as a pot, and branches like clouds, and for a moment lost the ability to speak, but only stared at the mouth of surprise with surprise, until the neck was extremely sore, and then gasped and lowered the head.

Zhang Siyuan rubbed his hands and sighed: "I'm afraid this is the largest tree in the world, I don't think four or five barrels of bottled water together can't reach its waist thickness." How many adults do you have to hug this......"

I added: "The trees around it are very tall, at least more than two meters. And its waist reaches the canopy of these trees, so its height can be imagined. The trees here are too densely packed, with branches tightly clustered around the trunks of giant trees. What does its canopy look like, I think we can only find out if we climb up to it. ”

He stared blankly at the strangely shaped, condensed branches, and muttered, "Maybe we can find our way out by climbing up." Climbing to the top to find a river is a breeze. ”

A flash of lightning flashed through my head, and I couldn't help but snap my fingers, patted him on the back and excitedly said, "This method works!" You have good eyesight, the black bear still has flares there, maybe we are lucky, they just climbed up and fired one. ”

He also became excited, and eagerly clung to the thick trunk of the tree, kicking and kicking his feet, wriggling like an ant on the giant tree. As I was about to follow, I heard a sharp and piercing sound in his trouser pocket, and the small sound in the midnight forest was as piercing as a horn at the microphone, and he shook his whole body with fright, and his hands loosened, and he fell on his back in the snow with a clatter.

I wiped the cold sweat on my head, felt the beating wildly, as if my heart was about to rush out, and watched Zhang Siyuan take out the watch that was still noisy from his trouser pocket with a white face.

He scrambled to press this and that, and finally stopped the harsh and terrifying sound. He gasped and stared at the dial, suddenly his eyes widened and his mouth widened, and his expression became agitated and weird. I hurriedly pushed the tree trunk away and jumped over with my limp legs, and the moment my eyes touched the dial, my expression was perhaps even more terrifying than Zhang Siyuan's.

The three hands, of different lengths, began to move steadily!

We both raised our heads at the same time and looked up at the sky, the light of the bright moon was already a little dim, and it didn't want to stay in the sky anymore, so it shrank down a little. It's getting darker than ever, and is dawn coming?

His voice trembled a little, and he stammered: "This, this day and the moon, yes, isn't it, a little darker than before?" ”

I nodded tremblingly, and he glanced at me with great excitement and then at the dim moon that was about to fall to the horizon, his brow ironed out in an instant, his mouth grinned to the base of his ears, and he jumped up like a child and punched me excitedly. My tears were about to come out, snatched Wang Zhen's watch and began to check the time, according to the usual all-night experience, it should be around 4:20 in the morning at this time.

After scolding and laughing for more than ten minutes, the two of us gradually calmed down. He strapped the watch around his wrist and tucked it carefully in his sleeve, and said happily, "We have finally walked out of that backwater-like place." Do you think this giant tree contains some mysterious substance that breaks the electromagnetic field, or maybe everything will return to normal as soon as you get here? ”

I shook my head and said, "I think it's probably not the electromagnetic field that is causing trouble, and the electromagnetic field affects electronic instruments or people's sense of direction at most, so how can it freeze time." But if you want to talk about this giant tree......"

At this point I stopped suddenly, and as I spoke of the giant tree, something vague flashed through my mind, as if it was something very important. I ignored his inquiry, meditating on my temple, and the vague thing gradually became clear with my efforts. I recalled the small black piece of paper lying in the snow and the way Wang Linshuo carefully carried it in his pocket, as well as the strange little man on the paper, and the riddle-like characters that also came to my mind. I opened my eyes suddenly, grabbed the confused Zhang Siyuan, and shouted, "The biggest tree is on the right hand!" ”

His expression gradually changed from dazed to surprised, and I knew that I didn't need to explain more, so I said bluntly: "When Uncle Lu was in the ward before, he told me that the purpose of coming here was to find a baby. I'm sure this treasure is closely related to the story in the Buddhist scriptures and the black pieces of paper I picked up on the road. I remember that the scrap of paper said: the thing in the right hand of the villain must be in the forest, and on the right hand side of the largest tree. ”

Zhang Siyuan's mouth and eyes gradually became bigger and bigger, and finally he laughed irrepressibly. He said half-skeptically, half-ecstatically: "Is our luck really so good?" Uncle Lu and Hu San have been here for so long and haven't found it, so can we find it easily? ”

I said as I discerned the direction: "We've had a lot of bad luck along the way, and now we're definitely making up for it - but I'm facing a problem right now, which is the right side?" ”

He frowned while turning his body and said: "Uncle Lu, this old fox is really lacking in virtue, we are all northerners, how good it is to say the southeast and northwest, we have to say right." Now, I think we'll have to dig in all four directions. ”

I sighed, Uncle Xinlu wouldn't be so unreliable. In this case, I can only roll the dice to find the direction, he is really the best representative of the pit nephew. Zhang Siyuan pondered: "Otherwise, let's decide left and right according to the direction we came." In this case, you may have a better chance of succeeding the first time. ”

I couldn't think of anything else, so I nodded in agreement. We both turned around, and he raised his right hand and whispered, "Guess where it will be?" Buried in the soil or tied to a branch? ”

I pulled out my shovel and squatted under the tree and began to dig, saying as I did, "I just observed, and there is nothing on the branches around me. Besides, who would tie the baby to a tree? As soon as the wind blows, it blows away. ”

With a shovel, we turned over the 20 square meters of land in this direction. But it's either dirt or snow that catches my eye, and it's rare to see a bug or two the size of a fingernail that lifts my spirits. He sat under the tree tiredly, hugged the trunk and gasped and complained: "The two of us are here to loosen the soil in the Great Xing'an Mountains, and we will loosen it in four directions." Today I eat bark worms when I'm hungry, and snow when I'm thirsty, and I have to turn this treasure out no matter what, and that's why I'm here. ”

I sighed: "Don't get your hopes up, just an old fox like Uncle Lu, the treasure in his mouth may not be something." Maybe we dug it out and took a look, and found that it was a bunch of *** CDs. ”

Zhang Siyuan said with a smile: "Don't bury your uncle, people are neurotic, don't lie in the warm quilt to see this kind of good thing, but run here to bury it?" In a place like this, you have to freeze it into a popsicle. ”

I slapped him and said, "Which side do you say has a good chance of digging next time?" ”

He straightened up, glanced around, and said, "I think we can try the direction we are facing back." The one in front of me tried, but the exits on both sides were blocked by densely packed trees, and it was impossible for people to come out of there. ”